Signal dossier
C6E04947-7779-4A82-92FA-2193690E5FA1
Compute / arXiv / 3 Aug 2026
TokTier: Exact Stateful Tokenization for Agentic LLM Serving
LLM serving systems cache prompt KV state, yet most front ends still re-tokenize the full request text on every call. The cost lands on coding agents, which resubmit a long transcript after each small tool result, and reuse is hard because even a short append can change token boundaries near the end of the previous sequence.…
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TokTier: Exact Stateful Tokenization for Agentic LLM Serving
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